Symbolism - Finestre sull'Arte

Parma, a major exhibition on Italian Symbolism at the Magnani-Rocca Foundation

From March 14 to June 28, 2026, the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Mamiano di Traversetolo, a few kilometers from Parma, hosts The Symbolism in Italy. Origins and Developments of a New Aesthetic 1883-1915, an exhibition that brings together more than 14...
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The true face of Giovanni Segantini, between nature and idea. What the exhibition in Bassano del Grappa looks like.

We tend to associate Giovanni Segantini's painting with alpine landscapes, snow, and mountains. Angelo Conti, in Beata Riva, a fundamental treatise on aesthetics, said that Segantini was "the revealer of the mountain," because "no one like him ever h...
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Nomellini and the restless city: how Genoa ignited Italian symbolism. What the exhibition looks like

The history of Italian pointillism passes through Genoa. Pass through Genoa the social unrest that would later spill over into the arts. Passing through Genoa were the first Symbolist hotbeds that animated Italian painting in the latter part of the 1...
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The landscape-state of mind: when nature becomes feeling

In one of the most intense passages of Gabriele D'Annunzio's Il Piacere, namely the narration of the protagonist Andrea Sperelli 's convalescence after receiving a nasty wound in a duel (an episode that marks the end of the first part of D'Annunzio's...
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Aleardo Kutufà, the rediscovery of an eclectic symbolist. What the Collesalvetti exhibition looks like.

Toward the end of the exhibition that Collesalvetti's Pinacoteca Comunale "Carlo Servolini" is dedicating, until Oct. 2, 2025, to Aleardo Kutufà, a singular, versatile genius who has fallen into oblivion, appears awork, a chromotype by Marcel-...
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An exhibition rediscovers Aleardo Kutufà: a journey through symbolism and dreams of the Middle Ages

Collesalvetti 's Pinacoteca Comunale "Carlo Servolini" (Municipal Art Gallery ) is hosting until Aug. 7, 2025 an exhibition intended to shed new light on a complex and still little-explored figure in the artistic and literary scene of early 20th cent...
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Jules van Biesbroeck and the centaur symbol of modern man.

In the vast panorama of the arts between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the singular, and still little-known, figure of Belgian painter Jules van Biesbroeck (Portici, 1873 - Brussels, 1965) represents a significant case for understanding the...
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M9 Mestre, 51 works from MuMa in Le Havre celebrate the power of art in the face of war's destruction

From March 15 to August 31, 2025 M9 - Museo del '900 di Mestre welcomes as its first temporary exhibition of the year the exhibition Arte Salvata. Masterpieces Beyond War from MuMa Le Havre, which aims to celebrate the power of art in the face of war...
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